Graduate Tracer Study of the Faculty of Nursing University of Tripoli, Libya: An Evidenced-Based Information for Curriculum Update and its Implications in Quality Assurance

The Faculty of Nursing ensures the quality education it provides is suitable to health needs meet demands and challenges care in country. Deemed produce future nursing leaders educators, faculty has undertaken its first graduate tracer study. Graduate studies obtain both intrinsic extrinsic results benefits. Intrinsic can be used point at areas for improvement study programs service delivery universities. study, based on Commission Higher Education-adapted survey questionnaire filled by Bachelor Science graduates batch 2011-2017. With descriptive-normative research design snowball sampling technique, smoothed way 126 respondents out 189 graduates. Data showed a predominance females over males, single married, mostly within 2528 years age. Majority were employed as full time government facility, well with satisfaction their work nurse ascribable monetary remuneration. job placement rate 65%, filling shortage nurses Libya. competency-based curriculum consistent, aligned relevant requirements Accorded World Health Organization’s patient safety curriculum, ‘Safe Quality Care’ competency appraised most area work. Followed ‘communication’, ‘human relations’, ‘research’, ‘problem solving’, ‘leadership’. ‘Critical thinking’ however deemed least patients. recommends regular tracking, further development policy educational achievement one criteria Furthermore, researches topics related extent knowledge application learned competencies education, employability employers’ preferences graduates, factors among nurse-employed non-nurse Lastly, an assessment faculty’s program learning essential teaching innovations’ upgrade not disregard strategies improve critical thinking abilities use practice. This achieve end goal this present entrench assurance from evidenced-information distinction voice